Dholrhythms Dance Company (Non-Stop Bhangra) Show and Dance Party at Osher Marin JCC

Dholrhythms Dance Company presents their joyful blend of traditional Punjabi dance with hip-hop and house influences. The evening begins with a fresh and exciting live show and gradually incorporates audience participation, featuring a short lesson plus a dance party. Created five centuries ago by farmers while they worked in fields, Bhangra is a joyous and celebratory form of dancing typically performed at festive occasions and celebrations. Dholrhythms has toured across the country, and is best known in the Bay Area for headlining the Rickshaw Stop's popular Non-Stop Bhangra club nights.

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Check out Dholrhythms Dance Company at their website, or see a video of their June 2010 show at Los Angeles’ Great Performances.

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Featured in New York, a hugely popular nightclub in San Francisco and on some of the largest stages in California, Dholrhythms Dance Company brings their overwhelmingly joyful dance and music to Marin.

Presented by The Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts at the Osher Marin JCC, the troupe, led by Vicki Virk and Suman Raj, highlights ancestral and ethnic roots of the traditional Punjabi dance form while pushing boundaries with contemporary influences such as hip-hop and house. The result is a fresh and exciting experience the audience participates in. Part dance show, part instruction, the evening begins with a beautiful and inspiring performance, followed by a short lesson, which evolves into a dance party of audience and performers alike.

Dholrhythms Dance Company headlines Non-Stop Bhangra club nights at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco and has played at the Stern Grove Festival, Michael Franti’s Power to the Peaceful Festival, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and Harmony Festival.

About the Ticket Supplier: Osher Marin JCC

The JCC's performing arts are anchored by its renowned CenterStage events, a stunning annual lineup of world-class musicians, actors, humorists, writers and more. Presented in the intimate Hoytt Theater and outdoors under summer skies on Swig Field, performances run the gamut from classical and world music to cabaret, solo theater to author conversations.